Alleged (2010)

Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 Charles Anderson a talented young reporter feels trapped working for his deceased fathers weekly newspaper and living in a tiny town Dayton TN in steep decline Seeing the Monkey Trial as a onceinalifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues Charles manages to insert himself into the middle of the Trial of the Century Once in the midst of this staged event however he is torn between his love for the more principled Rose his fiancée and the escalating moral compromises that he is asked to make as the eager protégé of HL Mencken Americas most colorful and influential columnist